By Tim Roberts in Search Engine Optimisation on Sunday, January 25, 2009 @ 15:49
I was sent this by an online marketing guru (well he thinks he is) with a link to the Google Annihilation software. This is the next big thing, get onto it straight away! You know the kind of emails I mean. Like all of these things, it looks like it is to good to be true - and it is. Read... read more
By Mindy Gofton in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, January 23, 2009 @ 10:51
Today, we noticed that a page on a client's site that has been blocked in the robots.txt is showing PageRank in the toolbar. However, when I went to view the cached version of the page, the URL in the cache was for the correct page: This may be a result of Google realising that this is... read more
By Tino Triste in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 @ 08:26
There are so many toolbars, greasemonkey plugins, and Firefox add-ons for analysing websites that I don’t even get excited when a new one comes along. In all honesty think that too many toolbars can actually slow down my workflow. Just because you can, doesn’t mean that you need to! [Having said... read more
By Chris Martin in Search Engine Optimisation on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 @ 14:38
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all was still and serene; snow flakes drifted down from the heavens through the cold night air.Boys and girls who’d been on best behaviour at least for a few days were now fast asleep dreaming of Santa’s arrival and the only thing to stir was the tap, tap,... read more
By Mindy Gofton in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 10:36
I read something on Search Engine Roundtable earlier in the week that got me steaming mad. An industry expert allegedly said the following to a roomful of people at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Chicago: "Yes; he buys links, but buys them for large .com's with lots of quality... read more
By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Monday, December 8, 2008 @ 13:41
I've just been reading that the internet trade body IMRG says the UK's Christmas online retail sales could reach £13.6bn ($19.9bn) and that sales of £320m are expected in Monday 8th December - with over £28m being spent online every hour. One in ten shoppers plan to shop online for some... read more
By David Taylor in Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, November 27, 2008 @ 16:03
Hi, my name's David and I am one of the new kids on the block here at I-COM. Please be gentle with me as this is my first posting into the blogosphere! I'm going to talk about something close to my heart, agency SEO'ers vs Freelancers. Now up until 2 weeks ago I was myself a freelance... read more
By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 00:00
Following on from Mindy's post on the perils of Tynt I had to laugh when I saw this custom 404 error page from the guys at seoconsultants - classic - Tynt 404 error page read more
By Mindy Gofton in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 @ 08:58
Gotta love the SEO industry. I do, being part of it. What I love the most about it is the downright cleverness of SEO companies across the board and their skill at marketing and communication in general. We're talking about an industry full of folks who really do get it! Take the email we... read more
By Mindy Gofton in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 13:40
Search Engine Land published an interview this week with Google about Local Search. One answer struck me as particularly important for local brick and mortar businesses whose offline traffic is often driven by people looking for their services or address online. The interviewer asked Google... read more
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